title: Influence of early function on long-term pediatric cadaveric renal allograft survival.
abstract: The significance of early renal graft function on long-term transplant survival is controversial. From our pediatric renal transplant population we studied 151 children who had an initial cadaveric renal transplant, were dependent on dialysis before transplantation and were 5 to 19 years old at transplantation. We used dependence upon dialysis as the parameter for early graft function. There was a statistically significant difference in long-term graft survival between patients who were independent of and dependent on dialysis at 1 week and 1 month postoperatively. Our results show that early renal graft function is important for long-term graft survival. All efforts should be directed to obtaining early renal graft function by proper organ procurement, storage, operative technique and aggressive postoperative management.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Churchill
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: McLorie
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Williot
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Merguerian
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D002102:Cadaver; D002648:Child; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000502:physiology*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011379:Prognosis; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors